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Tai Mo Shan (大帽山), the highest peak in Hong Kong, and also known to have the highest waterfall in Hong Kong.
Perfect warm night with rain so Stace and I went down to the Skaneateles Conservation Area to see if any Spotted Salamanders were crossing the roads on their annual migration to their breeding ponds. Sure enough the area was full of them. We helped over 15 salamanders and countless frogs across the road, hopefully ensuring the next generation of these amazing creatures. Happy Friday!
It IS the time for the Fall migration of the Monarch butterflies. It appears that their relatives, the buttercreams, are leaving as well.
This morning I visited both ends of the Matsqui Trail Park which borders the Fraser River. In both areas I found many Ruby-crowned Kinglets feeding and singing and moving up river.
Four birds arrived back on their breeding site just a day or so ago. This one was hawking up and down the river
Another bird to draw attention to plight of child refugees. They are migrating in their hundreds of thousands all over the world, through no fault of their own...
(exhibition will be in Bratislava in September).
Shot with Nikon FM2 on Kodak Gold 200 film.
Digitized with Epson V500 Scanner.
Mondorf-Les-Bains, Luxembourg
When migrating monarchs gather in trees to roost for the night, they flap and jostle for position as more butterflies join the perched ones, making for ongoing explosions of brilliant orange. It was too dark for enough shutter speed to freeze the wings so instead I purposely lowered it to create what I hoped would be painterly abstracts of deliberate blur with enough definition and a hint of motion. I like the textured and dreamy feel! 9/4/21
Fort Desoto Park, St. Petersburg, FL
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Second in my Snowy Owl series, this image shows the car roof that the owl chose as its perch. It is preening here and if you look closely, you can see several tiny bits of white feathers in the air surrounding the bird! I can see eight, actually. I usually clone out little 'blemishes' like that, but here I think it adds to the story. The subsequent images will not include the car...
The story behind this shot:
I always have my camera and wildlife lens in my car, and just before my lunch hour at 11am on October 21st, someone alerted me to the fact that a Snowy owl was sitting on a small car out in the parking lot across the street. Hoping it had not flown away, I grabbed my gear at the beginning of my half hour lunch, hurried across the street and there, preening and sitting calmly, was this gorgeous bird!
I aligned myself so there were trees in the background, fired off over 50 shots, then left the bird in peace and headed back to grab a bite to eat before returning to work.
Doing a bit of research, I found that more than 30 Snowies have arrived in this area in the last two weeks alone, signalling a larger-than-normal migration from the Arctic this season. The somewhat bizarre behavior of this owl being perched on a parked car, was explained by an area conservation biologist:
1-- they have just arrived exhausted by a migration of thousands of miles and, once landed, they need to rest and are reluctant to move
2-- they see no/few people in the Arctic, so they have little fear of humans
3-- they tend to hunt at night and rest in the daytime, therefore move very little in the day
This was not the only owl spotted in a city parking lot that day, so the situation was not as bizarre as it seemed.
Hopefully, this means we will be seeing many of these stunning birds this winter. This photographer will be ready!!
A couple of whoopers were seen at Lake Thunderbird yesterday, so I took a drive out and dipped. Saw a raft of mostly Bonaparte's Gulls I estimated at 8-10 thousand. Taking flight here and headed south. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
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Sincere congratulations to the awesome Flickr team for sorting out possibly one of the most gigantic website infrastructure migrations of all time.
It's officially Fall, so I thought this was appropriate subject matter. Taken a couple of years ago in Virginia.
200 218 Rome : Place St-Pierre
... inaugurée en septembre 2019 ...
Cette oeuvre commandée par le Pape François et dénommée "Les Anges inconscients" est signée par le sculpteur canadien Timothy Schmalz.